What Separates Me and You

Chapter 184 Was This How She Begged You

Lewis clasped Josephine’s hand again and slowly said, “Come with me. We’ll get the divorce certificate after your wounds are healed.”

Josephine slowly looked up after hearing this.

“Can we go now?”

Josephine lowered her eyes again and stared at her toes.

Lewis brought her to the car and helped her fasten her seat belts. Then, he went to the driver’s seat and drove out of the mansion’s compound.

When they arrived back at Styx Mansion, Lewis brought out the first aid kit and cleaned Josephine’s hands of the blood stains with the disinfectant.

Josephine sat motionless on the sofa, permitting Lewis’ actions.

He was very gentle, but Josephine still cringed when the alcohol touched the wounds on her fingertips.

“Stay still. Bear with me,” said Lewis as he held her hand steadfastly. Although he tried his best to be careful when disinfecting her wounds, Josephine would still tremble whenever the alcohol came in contact with them.

She could remember clearly the anguish she felt when the needle penetrated her fingertips.

She couldn’t put the pain into words, but she felt she could understand why their forefathers. would think the fingers are connected to the heart.

As enraged as Lewis had been, he had never treated her this way.

The most brutal act Lewis did to her was merely locking her up.

After Lewis cleaned her hands, he observed three of her fingernails were red with an easily discerned thin line of blood running through the middle.

He had a dangerous glint in his eyes that quickly disappeared.

After he finished applying medication to Josephine’s wounds, she was again covered in sweat, and her face was as pale as chalk

“It’s done.”

Josephine kept her head lowered all the time. When she heard him, she quietly withdrew her hand.

Lewis raised his hand to touch her face, but she turned her head slightly and dodged his hand.

word, Lewis stared fixedly at her for several

184 Was This How She Begged

He rose and said,

that, he promptly left, closing the door after him-locking it behind him, to be more precise.

to look at the door. The door

the

fingers. Her little finger, index finger, and middle

ripped the sky, and clamoring thunder came right after. Following an ear- splitting rumble, it started pouring, accompanied

at the willow tree in

her eyes staring blankly at the potted

Harrold to the muddy ground. Rain soaked her thoroughly, and her hair was in an utter mess. Under the

and tried to

was out on an errand when someone captured

surroundings were a blur in the torrent. She could only hear

Mrs. Harrold staggered-either due to an unknown wound or the heavy rain pounding on her, the weight was

she walked a few steps before crashing to the ground again.

her. They stood like statues in

Harrold was terrified. She stumbled and crawled, trying to find a way out, but when she fell again, a pair

water stained those

the umbrella for him as his condescending eyes were

mercy. “Master Lewis, it’s all my fault, I merely followed Mrs. Alvarez’s orders and didn’t do it out of my own will. Please forgive me, Master Lewis. I won’t repeat my mistake.”

The How She

deaf ear to Mrs. Alvarez’s instructions. Master Lewis! I have

I beg you. I don’t

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for Nancy all these years Roery maid

and about.

her mind she would end up like this, less so Lewis having the

loud and clear in the smattering rain, but Lewis seemed to nothing.

a cold voice above her saying, “Was this how she begged you,

before. She shook he frantically as she answered, “No!

her, toppling her over. He pressed his mud-stained shoe against her face He looked

pressure on her face increased, forcing her to

I look amiable to you?”